In the last 24 hours campus activists have received more attention for their tactics than for their cause.

Physical altercations and profanity laced rants all caught on camera and are now viral videos.

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Both students and administrators at the University of Louisville said there has been friction caused by what both sides see as disrespect as they discuss cultural sensitivity.

The fury in Louisville pales in comparison to the firestorms at Missouri and Yale.

And at least one activist said the protesters in these controversial videos acted appropriately.

Suzie Post knows a thing or two about demonstrations. The former national vice president of the ACLU has been involved in activism since the 1950s, from the Anne Braden case to Blaine Hudson's fight against UofL.

Post applauds the hunger and football strikes, petitions and marches that led to the resignation of the University of Missouri president.

But some of that has been overshadowed by a video of an altercation between journalists trying to film a protester safe camp on campus.

“People who were most effective were the people who kept their wits about them, knew exactly why they were doing what they were doing, did nothing to antagonize their opponents,” Post said.

“People who think that rebelling against a system or calling out something wrong has a certain type of protocol and that's just not true. We're all human,” Chanelle Helm with Stand-Up Louisville said.

Helm has traveled to Ferguson and is deeply involved in the Black Lives Matter movement.

During a protest at Yale University, a black Yale student became incensed with a professor whose wife wrote an email challenging administrators' warnings about offensive Halloween costumes.

She understands why some would be outraged, but in the end the message is being heard.

“Don't we love Donald Trump? He has the most of everybody's attention right now because he's speaking out of pure ignorance. He's derogatory. He insults people,” Helm said. “So when a person of color does that, then it has to be, ‘Well, you couldn't find a better way to do that?’”

Helm said the camp that media were trying to photograph at Missouri was a sacred place for protesters.

But because it was on a public college campus, members of the media do have the right to capture pictures and videos.